Front End Development Contracts in London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 169 109
Rank change year-on-year +34 -60 +5
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 318 394 982
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.82% 1.53% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.68% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 272 767
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £433 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -2.46% +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £796 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £565
% change year-on-year - -7.08% +22.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £37.15
25th Percentile - £80.75 £57.25
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £69.30
Median % change year-on-year - +17.61% +71.10%
75th Percentile - £82.25 £75.51
90th Percentile - - £76.88
England median hourly rate £71.87 £81.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.82% +25.38% +73.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in London.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in London.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +57 56 £488 -11.36% 10
South London +8 6 £586 +35.99% 1
East London -3 4 £443 +1.72% 8
West London +18 1 £350 -30.00% 1
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (6.92%) CMS
2 10 (3.14%) Apache
2 10 (3.14%) BizTalk Server
3 8 (2.52%) Confluence
3 8 (2.52%) WordPress
4 7 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.57%) Tornado
6 2 (0.63%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.94%) Sketch
3 1 (0.31%) InVision
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Endur
2 3 (0.94%) Shopify
3 2 (0.63%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.70%) Azure
2 68 (21.38%) AWS
3 30 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (8.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (6.92%) GitHub
5 22 (6.92%) Serverless
6 21 (6.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (5.97%) GCP
8 14 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (4.09%) Azure Functions
9 13 (4.09%) Azure Pipelines
10 12 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (3.77%) Figma
11 11 (3.46%) Azure Storage
12 9 (2.83%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (2.83%) npm
13 6 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 4 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.57%) HTTP
2 3 (0.94%) Intranet
3 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.72%) MongoDB
3 15 (4.72%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.40%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.20%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.26%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.94%) MySQL
10 2 (0.63%) RavenDB
10 2 (0.63%) Redis
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.31%) Big Data
11 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (18.55%) Git
2 21 (6.60%) JIRA
3 13 (4.09%) webpack
4 10 (3.14%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.83%) JUnit
6 7 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.57%) Pylint
9 4 (1.26%) Babel
9 4 (1.26%) Jasmine
9 4 (1.26%) Storybook
10 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.63%) git-flow
11 2 (0.63%) GitLab
11 2 (0.63%) Gradle
11 2 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.63%) Postman
11 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.63%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 75 (23.58%) Finance
2 60 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 48 (15.09%) Banking
4 34 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 31 (9.75%) Front Office
6 28 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.09%) Local Government
8 12 (3.77%) Back Office
8 12 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.83%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.57%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.26%) Marketing
12 3 (0.94%) Advertising
12 3 (0.94%) Automotive
12 3 (0.94%) Wearables
12 3 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.31%) Law
14 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 258 (81.13%) Developer
2 129 (40.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 76 (23.90%) Senior
4 58 (18.24%) Senior Developer
5 43 (13.52%) React Developer
6 36 (11.32%) Full Stack Developer
7 32 (10.06%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 28 (8.81%) UI Developer
9 27 (8.49%) Angular Developer
10 22 (6.92%) C# Developer
10 22 (6.92%) Software Engineer
11 16 (5.03%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 14 (4.40%) Backend Developer
14 13 (4.09%) UI Engineer
14 13 (4.09%) UX Developer
15 11 (3.46%) Senior Full Stack Developer
15 11 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (3.14%) Python Developer
16 10 (3.14%) UI/UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (50.94%) React
2 106 (33.33%) CSS
3 104 (32.70%) HTML
4 75 (23.58%) AngularJS
5 54 (16.98%) .NET
6 46 (14.47%) Node.js
7 45 (14.15%) REST
8 31 (9.75%) .NET Core
9 29 (9.12%) Redux
10 26 (8.18%) Spring
11 25 (7.86%) jQuery
12 24 (7.55%) Spring Boot
13 22 (6.92%) WebSockets
14 21 (6.60%) Next.js
15 19 (5.97%) Hibernate
15 19 (5.97%) HTML5
16 18 (5.66%) Vue
17 17 (5.35%) ASP.NET
18 16 (5.03%) Kafka
19 15 (4.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.43%) Fixed Income
2 18 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.46%) Renewable Energy
6 8 (2.52%) Solar Panel
7 6 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.57%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.26%) Wiki
10 3 (0.94%) Derivative
10 3 (0.94%) Equities
10 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.63%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.63%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.40%) Windows
2 7 (2.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) CentOS
3 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (40.25%) Agile
2 80 (25.16%) User Experience
3 75 (23.58%) Software Engineering
4 70 (22.01%) DevOps
5 63 (19.81%) CI/CD
6 59 (18.55%) Full Stack Development
7 43 (13.52%) UX Design
8 42 (13.21%) Microservices
9 36 (11.32%) TDD
10 35 (11.01%) Web Development
11 33 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (8.81%) Clean Code
14 27 (8.49%) Code Quality
14 27 (8.49%) Mentoring
14 27 (8.49%) Scrum
14 27 (8.49%) SDLC
14 27 (8.49%) Unit Testing
15 26 (8.18%) MVC
16 25 (7.86%) OO
Programming Languages
1 160 (50.31%) JavaScript
2 104 (32.70%) TypeScript
3 73 (22.96%) SQL
4 68 (21.38%) C#
5 52 (16.35%) Java
5 52 (16.35%) Python
6 16 (5.03%) Bicep
7 11 (3.46%) Go
7 11 (3.46%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.14%) C++
8 10 (3.14%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.89%) Ruby
11 3 (0.94%) JSX
12 2 (0.63%) Bash
12 2 (0.63%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) F#
13 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.64%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.86%) Degree
4 10 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.32%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.23%) WCAG
3 9 (2.83%) QA
4 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 30 (9.43%) Docker
2 17 (5.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (12.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.89%) Terraform
3 5 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.94%) Grafana
5 2 (0.63%) Istio
6 1 (0.31%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.72%) Oracle
3 10 (3.14%) Google
3 10 (3.14%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.57%) Confluent
4 5 (1.57%) Databricks
5 4 (1.26%) Black Duck
6 3 (0.94%) Adobe
7 2 (0.63%) Maxymiser
7 2 (0.63%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.63%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.31%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.31%) Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.31%) Sun
8 1 (0.31%) Virgin Media